Teaching

Dr. Rasmussen is most interested in applications of mathematics to the real world. He welcomes the challenge of sharing his mathematical knowledge, and real life work experience with students who may have found previous mathematics courses to be dull, hard, theoretical, or generally a negative experience. As a faculty member at Gonzaga University, Bowdoin College, and UWB, Dr. Rasmussen has taught courses on calculus, probability, statistics, finance, linear programming, operations research, graph theory, mathematical logic, business mathematics, and mathematics for the liberal arts. Dr. Rasmussen enjoys combining his 14 years of experience in banking to enhance the courses he teaches. A good example of this combination of real life experience and mathematical knowledge was his development and teaching of the finance module for the award winning UW Extension course on Commercial Real Estate.

Research/Scholarship

Dr. Rasmussen original research and publications were in the character theory of finite groups. He is currently interested in Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Financial Calculus and Computer Modeling. The combining of finance, computer modeling, and the bootstrap technique from statistics are presently at the center of his interests.